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Moon travel
SIMON :-):
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--- Quote from: "Andy." ---Hmm..........why are there no stars :?:
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Because NASA forgot to paint them in on the backdrop thinking that us mere thicko civilians wouldn't notice.
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No No No No Yes :arrow: it was cloudy :wink:
Wanderer:
Well silly....
They took the photos during the day.
They only come out at night.
:? 8) :roll:
Ed
ian_s:
can you see the stars in daylight? nope. so the guys on the moon wouldnt either, and the ambient level of light on moon is actually far higher than it is on earth, cos theres no atmosphere to absorb it.
i think the moon lander weighed about 17 tons, in earths gravity, so on the moon that would make it a bit less than 3 tons, which is less than something like a helicopter. do they leave craters when they land on sand?
SIMON :-):
Would have thought so, you should see the size creater when me and Paj hit the ground :shock:
Huge 8)
The sand gets in my brakes though :P
m0awb:
--- Quote from: "ian_s" ---can you see the stars in daylight? nope. so the guys on the moon wouldnt either, and the ambient level of light on moon is actually far higher than it is on earth, cos theres no atmosphere to absorb it.
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Or reflect it so one cancels out the other. The shear blackness and lack of any detail in the background of the photo's is I believe a bit suspect to say the least.
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i think the moon lander weighed about 17 tons, in earths gravity, so on the moon that would make it a bit less than 3 tons, which is less than something like a helicopter. do they leave craters when they land on sand?
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Given that a helicopter relies on lift rather than thrust I'd say it would make one hell of a crater if it tried to land on the moon from the same height.
A better analogy would be a Harrier jump jet and they would make a bloody great crater landing vertically on sand. The moon surface was said to be "firm and powdery". Even the level of thrust needed to land a 3 ton object from that height softly on the moon would blast away most if not all the powder from the immediate vicinity and leave the "firm" (possibly) bedrock exposed. It doesn't take a NASA scientist or a photographic laboratory wizz kid to work out all the inconsistencies that are clearly visible in the photo's. In fact you can discount NASA scientist completely as they all missed them completely.
Facinating subject though and given the urgency at the time, a few porkies, propaganda, from the USA government should'nt suprize anyone :)
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